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ARIZONA
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12/24/07
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Re: Children tried as adults
Dec 24, 2007 1:09 PM
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I do believe that children should be tried as adults if the crime fits an adult status i.e.: murder, rape, selling drugs, violent crimes, armed robbery etc. The reason some children do adult crimes is because the adult influences them in one way or another so the adult escapes the maximum penalty leaving the child to do little or no time at all.
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From:
San Diego Calif/ Florida
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12/14/07
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Re: Children tried as adults
Dec 14, 2007 2:12 PM
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No children should not be tried as adults and Florida is the worse state for doing this.The law says a person does not become a adult till the age of 18. They cant vote or decide anything about our laws or judicial system and a 12 or 13 year old CHILD should not be tried as a adult or put in a prison where if they are put in will most certainly be a criminal when they are finally released back in to society. The parents should be responsible for the behavior of there children. When i was a boy if I did something wrong I knew I would get a belt across my behind so I wasnt as swift to do wrong as today when a Child does wrong the parents take away there cell phones or sony play stations for a week. We need to look at family values and our "material thing" Culture we live in as to the cause of more and more children committing crimes as well as rap music in general with its drug use and violent messages it sends our kids.
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From:
Saint John N.B
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6/28/07
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Re: Children tried as adults
Jun 29, 2007 8:56 AM
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Children 14 should be tried as an adult, kids are smarter today than 10yrs ago. They know how to find anything on the computer and they remember almost everything!! By the age of 12 yrs old, they no what is RIGHT/WRONG!!
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3/26/07
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Jun 25, 2007 3:25 PM
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First we will have to change the ages that hold them accountable. Children of today unfortunately are shown bad behavior at a very early age (most of the time in their own homes). The age of protecting your children from the "boogeyman monster" are long gone. Some of these kids have "records" by the time they are touching the teen years. We should no longer hide their juvenile records because anyone who reads a newspaper knows that some of these kids don't wake up at 18 years old and decide to kill someone. That thought was probably brewing for quite a lot of adolescent life.
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